About “I Could Have Lied”

“I Could Have Lied” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers is off their album, Blood Sugar Sex Magik. The album earned the Chili Peppers mainstream success with the hit single, “Give It Away”, and the even bigger iconic single, “Under the Bridge”.

“I Could Have Lied” was about singer Anthony Kiedis’s relationship with Irish singer, Sinéad O'Connor.

What have the artists said about the song?

Anthony Kiedis further talks about where the inspiration for “I Could Have Lied” came from in his autobiography, “Scar Tissue”

“I was shattered. It had gone overnight from ‘Can’t wait to see you again’ to ‘Don’t call and don’t come by.’ I didn’t know who to turn to, so I called up John. He was irate that she could treat me like that, and he suggested that I write about it and we’d get together later that night and create a song. It had been raining for two days straight when I sat down at my dining room table, put Jimi Hendrix’s version of ‘All Along the Watchtower’ on continual rotation for inspiration, and started writing some lyrics about what had just happened to me.”